“I don’t like getting questions about my purchases at lingerie shops. What I wear is my own business.” Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer on Blippy, an online service that allows you to share your recent purchases with a network of friends. Blippy has been at the center […] Read more »
Users who sign up for Blippy, the service that encourages sharing personal transactions online, do so with the expectation of becoming more open about their purchase data. But they don’t expect for their credit card numbers to be posted online. That’s what appears to have happened. Read more »
A service called Strings, which launched today, is trying to find and collect all the different ways you can track yourself online. Strings is not about socializing and sharing that information, like the Twitter-for-credit-cards Blippy, but about privately harnessing it. Read more »
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Is nothing sacred anymore? Is privacy just an outdated construct in light of new ways to harness personal information? We interview Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan about his new site for sharing and socializing around personal transaction information. Read more »
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